Image courtesy of the artist
From March 5-April 14, 2027 New City Arts will present an installation by Natasha Woods.
This immersive film installation, Natasha shares, will “play on my thinking around Avant-Gardens, a framework for collaborative filmmaking inspired by feminist filmmakers and poetic cinema. The exhibition will feature a personal, diaristic collage film and recreate the balcony where it was shot, complete with plants, a hammock, and chairs. This installation will invite viewers to consider how they sense with their bodies, holding a space for them that supports labors of care, nourishment, and solidarity.”
Photo by: Amber Elison
Natasha Woods (she/they) is committed to using filmmaking as a tool for inquiry, collective organizing, and worldmaking. She has organized a number of screenings and workshops at DIY and artist-forward spaces. Her early curiosities grew from the fields and landscapes of rural Iowa where she grew up in a blended family of factory workers and farmers. Her approach to filmmaking is somatic, one of deep listening, an invitation to look closer and to move slowly. By centering the first-person and process based approaches, the cameras becomes an extension and tool for her observation and inquires for world making and questions of belonging–finding refuge in the the refusal of mastery.
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